From: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:27:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mlx4: allow application to partially fork
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~8901
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=643777a171acc19b578ba867db12774986585a4d;p=dpdk.git

mlx4: allow application to partially fork

Although using the PMD from a forked process is still unsupported, this
commit makes Verbs safe enough for applications to call fork() for other
purposes.

Signed-off-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
index 8be1574b03..ed68bebaa5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c
@@ -4686,6 +4686,14 @@ rte_mlx4_pmd_init(const char *name, const char *args)
 {
 	(void)name;
 	(void)args;
+	/*
+	 * RDMAV_HUGEPAGES_SAFE tells ibv_fork_init() we intend to use
+	 * huge pages. Calling ibv_fork_init() during init allows
+	 * applications to use fork() safely for purposes other than
+	 * using this PMD, which is not supported in forked processes.
+	 */
+	setenv("RDMAV_HUGEPAGES_SAFE", "1", 1);
+	ibv_fork_init();
 	rte_eal_pci_register(&mlx4_driver.pci_drv);
 	return 0;
 }